My YouTube Video Mixer Project

Dreamweaver was being a wanker so I had to put this here.

Burn a Miracle

This relates to Banksy's video here in the sense that I see it as a big middle finger to the music industry.
Song: "Burn a Miracle" Artist: Say Anything Album: "Anarchy, My Dear"

Stop the Invasion!

Exposing the truth about the aliens coming in 2015. Don't believe to SETI's lies. A peaceful first encounter is liberal crap! Go to stoptheinvasion.org.
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Video Transcript:
Last week SETI showed this message from these extra-trestrialuls:
[Video footage]

Them subtitles is fake. This here would be a less bad translation:

[Video footage]

Just look at that menacin' face:

[Photo]

E’ryone knows that aliens wanna kill us. Earth is ours and we aint lettin none of these ugly-ass spiders come in an’ take our ‘Merica. Join the fight at stoptheinvasion.org.

Walter Benjamin Questions

1. In Section II, Benjamin states that "Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be." Is this a valid argument? Doesn't a reproduction of a work of art become unique in existence at its own time and place? Does the reproduction of something become something new that can be considered unique in this regard?

2. In section IV, Benjamin says "The instant the criterion of authenticity ceases to be applicable to artistic production, the total function of art is reversed. Instead of being based on ritual, it begins to be based on another practice – politics." Benjamin is painting contemporary art, especially reproduction, as a removal of authenticity in art here. How does authenticity get taken away from this method? Is something really inauthentic when it's a reproduction? In what ways can this argument be countered; how can, for example, a digital reproduction actually become authentic?

First Contact

I love jumping spiders, and I also love sci-fi. So I decided to combine both for these three images. What I like about jumping spiders, besides being cute, is that they have so much personality in those four big eyes of theirs. So I decided to further humanize them by treating them as an alien species. They already look very alien to begin with! Perhaps the theory that life on Earth did begin in space when an asteroid impact brought life here, possibly explaining why these aliens look like Earth-creatures. Or we can pretend that jumping spiders never existed on Earth for the sake of this project.

Either way, I pretended to be a graphic designer for the SETI Institute (the Search for Extraterrestrial Life) after contact with these aliens became public news. SETI would be the most important organization in dealing with extraterrestrial life, after all. The third poster depicts a one of the possible ways some people could react to such an event.

Photoshop Download Links:

Poster 1

Poster 2

Poster 3

Humans/Primates

This was the first "project" we did in class, just for practice. The image speaks for itself.

Overview of my Work

I do hand-drawn animation, character design, graphic design, photography and writing. My cartoon "The Bunnyful Bunnies - 'No Harm, No Howl'" won a gold key at the Scholastic Art Awards in 2012. My most recent animated project is an animated short film titled "Dr. Spatula - 'For the Grater Good'", which can be watched here. It hasn't been currently released yet because I'm still looking for film festivals to send it to. I'm currently working on a novel and a 10 - 20 minute animated short film, both sci-fi projects.

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